in Europe which would make inmore But in discussing the posibilities of this movement I think one should be clear that it's not just a question of convincing those on the right - it's a quesconvincing the Soviet Union that a rôle in such a campaign and encouragement of it is Part of the solution lies in the Prevision of cinparmation aboch own Cabas les given the nature of their society and the role of secrecy within it, they are extremely reluctant to Don't the events in Poland show that even if the Soviet Union carries out some tions in the third world which are objectively progrester régimes Eastern of which the Soviet Union is the leader - - and in the guarantor o continued existence of the others - are not socialist ano na the working class directly exercise political power?
Aren't dealing here with a régime which rests on a privileged bureaucracy?
I think that's mainly correct The Soviet Union's international rôle in the Third World is diffrom its rôle in East In the Third World it has given assistance to revolutionary movements and governments which have issued from revolutionary movements, albeit with mancuye conscaucices Eastern Europe it is assisting the party bureaucracies to remain in What underlines the dif. ference between the events in Poland and some other parts of the world is that events in Poland threat to the Soviet leadership itself - much more so than the developments in Iran or Afganistan. The example of workers striking, either for political rights or improved living standards, is an example that could have very serious conSoviet 1 doubt whether the Russian working class is as political as the Polish working class, because it doesn't share its national aspirations nor does it have the history of the Polish working class.
But it certainly shares its concern for living standards and a ser falde rivation and eling economic We've seen this year the strike at Togliattigrad, where a member of the Central Committee had to arrive with two trainconsumer The Polist placate the workers.
coming in a country on the borders of the Soviet Union and with which the Soviet Union has a traditional relationship, illumine the nature of the Soviet system itself.
That underlines one of the most negative features of the rôle ot the soviet Union in the Third World, namely its tendency to those countries where it has influence a system analagous to that in the Soviet Union itself. The repressive solution to the national question in and the building of monolithic party are two such